i am looking for a VPS account and am not about the managed accounts, if they truly are suffiecient or if i need to hire someone to manage the server for me.
I have checked on modVPS and they offer managed VPS, anyone uses them? Are the managed services that they offer sufficeint? have you had any problems with installing new software or support? Any other good companies?
I saw that you are with Kiet on modvps, correct? I was with modvps some times ago but I had many issues, outages etc... I would like to know about modvps today. What is your review about modvps today?
I forced to write a review about MODVPS.com which is a branch of hostingzoom... First time I am writing it here...
Here is the story, Brought there VPS on lastweek... They took the money rightway...
Havent recived NOT even a single mail in regards of the account for 5 days... Emailed them and told them to refund it, happy enough to have their service... They replied, "Fill out the cancellation with server details"... What the hell, I send a mail, the account has not been setup, how can we send server details...? "no response"...
Now another person working with me called him and asked in regards of account setup and refund... ONE *** guy in sales team said " I dont know, please contact billing team"... Asked him: whats the billing number..? He: I Dont know, just email.... Asked him: Whats ur escalation channel,havent recived any notification in regards of account He: I Dont know, just email.... Asked him: What's ur president's phone / email He: I don’t know, are you threatening me..?? Just email....
My back, he blangs a lot... He dosent know whats he talking about or whats customer service is... I recorded his phone conversation, will post it here soon.... This is the truth.. Been in this industry for many years....Never seen such a BAD hoster.... They think they can have the money and sit out there..
My friends: My suggestion, never ever go with MODVPS which is a part of "hostingzoom", they are not at all professional... One guy is replying to emails with different names... If you get issues, i am sure, they dont care they will tell u to look for different hoster....
Now, still waiting for my REFUND... Lets see.... I will post my updates here... I paid $44.50 one month hosting fee, and I am screwed by their service, let it not happen to others... No response at all for 5 days....
I started hosting with ModVPS on March 14, 2007. My VPS was setup quickly and had everything I needed to transfer my clients over pretty seamlessly. They did a swell job there. This is a VPS we were using primarily for some shared hosting clients and a reseller or two.
Over the past 5+ months I've submitted numerous support inquiries, all of which I feel were tended to in an acceptable amount of time. Their personnel were always friendly and seemed knowledgeable.
Apropos the performance of the server, well, in the beginning it was great. Over time however, the speed and reliability progressively deteriorated. It has recently come to a point that the VPS is almost unusable. I attribute some of this to our growth. Currently, we only have about 10% of our disk allowance available. Obviously it's time to move on. This is where things start getting pretty sketchy.
For the past 3 months I've been receiving automatic notification emails of services failing. I'm not talking about 2 or 3, or even 5 to 10, I'm talking more like 15-20 per day. Granted, there are couple of notifications regarding a suspended account or disk space warnings but the lion's share of these (~90%+) are failed services emails. I submitted several tickets on this to no avail. Take a look at the attachments to see only some of the emails.
I started off having a positive opinion of modVPS. I quickly learned however that once you make them aware of your interest in leaving, regardless of how legitimate or impersonal the reason, you suddenly become a second-class customer. Their ability to make prompt responses suddenly ceases to be. Huh? That's odd.
As it is, all of my data is being held hostage by the sub-par VPS it's hosted on. The VPS has become so unresponsive that it's impossible to migrate any of the data. My new provider sent me this message:
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I have some bad news. We have been working on your source server for the last hour or so, and it has been extremely unresponsive. We tried shutting down various services such as Apache, etc but your load won't go below 3 or 4 -- which is really bad. All disk operations are taking a very long time. For example, to edit a file 'vi' requires 60-seconds just for the file to load up and be viewable.
We cannot continue migrating your account, you need to contact your provider and have them double your disk space. Right now you are using 90% of your disk space, so 10% of free space is not enough for us to backup all of your accounts and then transfer them over. We already tried doing a cPanel -> cPanel migration and that failed a few times because the accounts are just too large and the source server is too slow.
Theres not much here we can do I'm afraid, you'll have to contact your provider and ask them to double the disk space and also ask if they can move you on a less crowded node, because it's apparent that your server is extremely slow yet major services are not even running.
So I contacted modVPS with the request to temporarily increase my disk space to allow me to transfer my data.
The excuse was:
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please note that the main node is now performing a raid intialization which is a resource intensive process and will be affecting the server's and there by VPS' performance. Once it is over, every thing will function fine. Also it is not possible to double the disk space of you VPS. You can go for a plan upgradation, if needed.
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RAID initialization is being run in the server for the last 3 days. Also it is not possible for us to increase the VPS quota. Any way I am forwarding this ticket to our CS department and they will confirm this.
To sum this up, modVPS made a very good first impression and managed to keep me in their good graces for most of my time hosting with them. The failed services emails weren't a huge deal and we didn't notice much of a performance/uptime hit because of them. The services must've rebooted pretty quickly. It does go to show there was definitely a problem the modVPS SAs were ignoring. It's when they decided I was no longer worth the trouble that my perspective on them changed. It was a noticeable change in tone and responsiveness and what's worse, they've been of very little help with my transition to my new provider.
This post isn't me dragging modVPS through the mud. This is me sharing my experience with them as a host and hoping for 2 things: 1) they decide to facilitate this transfer and salvage the good impression they once had and 2.) to enlighten any potential customers considering them. I don't think this is an unfair review but then again, I'm the one writing it so I'm not impartial enough to make that assessment.
I would like to post my review of great services provided by modvps.com/HZ Team
Support - its great, really fully managed, available for 24/7 . All my tickets are replied within 5 hours or less. I needed php5 - 3 hours later it was installed and running.
revdns ? - open ticket, and thats done.
What about servers? Non oversold, fast and stable.
Really, really great service for that price. Even, if you can buy somewhere for few dollars cheaper - Iam sure that you wont get such support and customer service like modvps.com/resellerzoom/hostingzoom.
well i've had modvps for 3 months now. I decided to go with them based on a couple reviews from this forum.
the first month was great. Everything was fast and i had no problems
then i started having issues with emails not coming through or being sent out. After about 20 support tickets back and forth it was eventually fixed.
It seemed to me that they have no experience with technical issues at all. They just try things to see if it fixes the problem. Their response time was great until yesterday. I sent in a ticket and didn't receive anything till today. (14 hours). I sent in another ticket today and they responded within 15 minutes saying that they would look at why my HTTPD has failed and would not start. Its been 1 hour and 15 minutes since they responded and all my sites are still down.
All my sites have slowed down in the past 2 weeks. I have an e-commerce website that has directly been effected by the slowness. Sales have dropped big time since everything has come to a crawl.
Recently i couldn't even connect to any of my FTP sites because it would time out during connection. Ftp started working today. SSH worked but that would take like 20 seconds to connect.
Overall its just been a bad experience for the past 2 weeks. I guess once the 30-day money back guarantee period expires they kick you to the curb and focus on their new customers.
i tried starting httpd and mysql from virtuozzo but that doesn't work either.
With summer and the holiday season coming up in a couple months, i don't think i can trust ModVPS to host my e-commerce website.
Hello, I'm a long-time reader of WHT but this is the first time I've posted. For the sake of this review I'm choosing to remain anonymous, so please excuse the break from tradition.
I am one of the original customers of modVPS from when they began taking orders. as you may know, mod is the HostingZoom division that does VPSes. They got my attention by the generous amount of minimum RAM for their options (512 MB for the tier-1 plan) and the competitive prices. As an opening special, it seemed like a pretty nice deal. HZ has had some good vibes in their shared hosting operation so I decided to give mod a try. I have been with them now for a little over four months on the VZ2 node running a medium-load forum-based website to get a feel for them.
ModVPS is frustrating because of their unfulfilled potential. They have a straight-forward business plan: to focus on providing two simple cPanel plans and devoting as much RAM, disk space, and bandwidth as they can manage to make those plans very attractive to customers. However, their service continues to be hampered by an ineffective support system that relies on the efforts of an alarmingly small number of VPS technicians. Hardware problems (that are inevitable, especially for a start-up) that should be handled relatively smoothly can become catastrophic downtime events because of their shortage of personnel and ineffective communication with their customers.
Functional Problems ---------------------------- ModVPS customers have three different systems they need to use for communicating with the company. First there is a billing system which is branded by and run by HostingZoom. Second there is a support system which is run on the ModVPS website and through email. Third there is the ModVPS section of the private customer-only HostingZoom forums. As has been my experience, having all these systems spread out all over the place has led both to a lot of poor communication from the company regarding downtime events as well as a lot of extra work for the support people as they have to repeatedly give out the same information over various media (and still manage to not be able to contact everybody).
My greatest frustration has been with their forum. There are two main boards of interest for mod customers (among the list of all the other HZ board), one main "modVPS" board for service discussion and one board for each node in a list of all of the servers that HZ operates where service alerts such as downtime are posted. I'll refer to this as the server board. Each server board is a subforum of a greater "downtime" forum. So imagine about 100 server boards which are listed in alphabetical order. All of the VPS nodes start with "VZ" and thus are at the bottom of the list, beneath all the shared hosting server boards.
For all practical purposes, the server board for each node is hidden from the customer. Many modVPS customers have had their first introduction to the server board for their node during the middle of a downtime event where they angrily post on the main board to find out what is going on and have to be directed to their server board (buried in the listing) where there would be a post saying that there was scheduled (or unscheduled) downtime for their node.
Up until very, very recently, mod would not send out email announcements to customers when there would be scheduled downtime. They would post on the (buried) server board for each node affected, leading everyone except those who checked that buried forum on a daily basis *completely surprised* to find their server down during the downtime window. Understandably, lots of people have been upset, as you've seen by reading some of the earlier threads here on WHT.
Even today, mod suggests that you use the subscription function of the server board to be notified by email when a new post has been made there. Unfortunately, the notifications are only sent out on a daily basis, not immediately when a post is made, thus depending on how the circumstances work out, you may not be notified of emergency downtime until after it has already started, thus negating the purpose of early notification. After the company received essentially unanimous complaints from its customers that this process is unworkable, they have now started doing some email notifications, however time will tell if they do this in a competent manner or will descend back into their previous habits once enough time has passed.
Support Woes ---------------------------- I would consider myself a reasonably advanced server admin, beyond the point where I would need any hand-holding by support. My perspective is that support should: A. Be aware of everything (within reason) going on on their network and be proactive in solving problems; B. Be able to respond to common VPS problems without the need to call the supervisor to figure out what is going on; and C. Respond promptly to all customer tickets with accurate information.
Long story short, if I'm sending in a ticket, I *know* there is a problem that has to be looked at from their end. The first problem I had with the service was actually a precursor of problems to come. Whenever I logged in to SSH, there would be a short, unexplained slowdown that would cause web requests to crawl along. I went through and checked for security problems, bad processes, etc. and determined that there was nothing unusual running on the server or anything that showed a resource spike whenever SSH was active. So I put in a ticket thinking that it may be a network or routing issue.
Now, the datacenter is in Atlanta. For some reason that I don't understand, they had three people in India (I'm assuming they are HZ support people) SSH into my server and say that they didn't see anything unusual.
Now, bear in mind that India is pretty much on the other side of the damn planet from Atlanta. Connecting to the server from that distance is going to have response delays just by the nature of the network between here and there. They delay that they had in connecting to my server was oddly correlated to the delay I experienced. Thus, to them nothing seemed unusual. Since they weren't able to reproduce it and I wasn't able to explain it, ticket closed.
This incident, although pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things, demonstrates a foundational problem that modVPS has. There are (as far as I'm aware) only two or so engineers who actually have access to the datacenter (assigned to the VPS servers, HZ has more people for their shared plans) and could have properly diagnosed the hardware problem (that you will read about next). As a cost-cutting move it seems like most of the support personnel is telecommuting from India. While the global economy is certainly a good thing for the world, I am expecting that a hosting company have sufficient personnel on-site to properly respond to customer requests.
In the same light, we all continue to experience delays in loading cPanel/WHM. Just a couple or seconds or so before it loads for the first time, and then it works fine. For the life of us, nobody seems to believe that this is actually occurring. Nobody in support seems to be able to reproduce this, and then nobody has a definite explanation for it. The current theory is that some customers are abusing burst RAM and causing a delay when cPanel first requests memory to load. Support has gone so far as to disable burst RAM *for all customers* in order to track down the trouble-makers, but the cPanel loading delays persist. Since this is an admin-facing side issue only and does not affect web visitors, it's not a huge crisis, but the length of time that it has taken to diagnose this problem (and we still don't have a solution!) is becoming quite troubling indeed.
April Meltdown ---------------------------- Starting on about April 20 or so things really started to get hairy. There was a hard drive failure in the RAID array on our server. Now from the reports on the forum, they indicated that it was a failure of two disks in the array. I don't have any reason to doubt this, but if it was really this way, they would not have just been able to swap in new disks and start up again. Just by the manner in which the RAID setup they are using works, a double-disk failure means a wiped out array and a nice extended smoke break while you wait for backups to restore to the new array. However, it seems like the disks were simply swapped and a fsck was performed. I was a bit worried that either they incorrectly said that two disks had failed when it may have been just one (which would fit the results we experienced) or that there had actually been two disks that failed and that they had performed a miraculous array resurrection (in which case I seriously underestimated their capabilities!).
OK, disks fail. It happens. The problem here is that nobody stopped and thought about *why* there was a failure. About a day or so later there was a complete shutdown of the node (and in fact, all the VPS nodes) because of extreme overheating. We found out later that when the tech opened up the cabinet to check another hardware issue that he got blasted with hot air that was trapped in the cabinet.
"Now you see, there's your problem right there..."
Now if you were around here on the forum when this went down, you witnessed all the misery that followed from other customers so I won't go into all that again. At the end of the process I got my 100% SLA credit so that gives you an idea of the length of downtime involved. They had to move everything to a new rack with better cooling, which even under ideal conditions would be a major operation. Just to put the icing on the cake so to say, they overloaded the fuses when they plugged the servers in for the first time because the circuit was underrated.
So how come I haven't defected since then? Well to put it briefly, ever since that point, the service has been practically flawless. Yes there continues to be the minor problem with cPanel loading, but to be honest I'm not optimistic that they will ever be able to fix that at this point. You have to take the bad with the good in the business, and since the downtime fracas it has been mostly good.
That does not mean to say that I would buy again from them or recommend them to others. At this point I am planning on moving my one website that is hosted there to another provider when other long-term factors coincide with the opportunity to do a move. In essence, the service now is good enough, but I would rather not worry from day to day if there will be another blowup.
Where Improvements are Needed ---------------------------- #1. They need to hire more support personnel, both for the datacenter and for ordinary support requests. The continually have to borrow support people from their shared plans at HZ to handle VPS issues, which is a whole 'nother ballgame and would probably make their HZ customers mad also. As a startup I would understand not having the resources to do this immediately, but they are part of an already-established company which should be planning to handle this.
#2. They need to consolidate their communication pathways to customers. The forum is an atrocious user-un-friendly mess that desperately needs to be reorganized. Server boards cannot possibly be buried in the list like they are now. The billing and support systems should be consolidated especially so that the customer does not have to provide all their account details with every ticket.
#3. At the beginning it seemed as if their experience level was lagging a bit but as time has gone on they are getting better at handling tickets. I will chalk this up to them just getting into the VPS business, but there needs to be a continuation of the improvements we've seen to take them to the next level as a host.
What They Do Right ---------------------------- #1. The plans are excellent, and really could be a rock-solid foundation for growth, but they are currently limited by the problems above.
#2. Connectivity is great, as well as latency. Hopefully with their hardware problems resolved (knock on wood) they will become more reliable than they were in the past.
#3. They have been correcting their mistakes (not brushing them off), especially with the email notifications. Now they just need to keep going and address the problems above.
So, that's it, I hope you've found this review to be helpful.
I have a VPS with ResellerZoom (modVPS) and on 18th after opening a ticket I was told they need to recompile apache and from there on all of my domains are showing a apache page or internal server error.
For the last 2 days when ever I open a ticket they say, they are recompiling apache.
Today I was told that they need to recompile apache AGAIN by another tech. its going to be 3 days now and still they are recompiling apache and my sites are down.
Does it really take 2-3 days to fix a issue like this? or could they be lacking in support? Any advice, so I can tell their techs to speed up the process?
About 500-1000 sites of mine where down for about 1-2 days few months back now this and they are killing business
For those who are using ModVPS. How's ModVPS' Support? What's their turn around time for their respond? Do they resolve the problem effeciently?
We currently have a VPS with PowerVPS and their support is amazing. I cannot complain they are excellent. Now we are planning to get another VPS but we might not get it from PowerVPS as much as we love to get it from them. Because at the same price we can get 3 times the specs from ModVPS. I just want to know if ModVPS' support is as amazing as PowerVPS.
We are resellers from ResellerZoom / ModVPS, at this moment we have about 10 accounts (8 reseller accounts and 2 VPS).
The problem starts some days ago, when they do a servers cage movement having us offline for about 8 hours at various servers.
Well, we have experienced various connectivity problems with them, and this was a major problem but we waited fine.
Yesterday. we receive an e-mail from a VPS client telling us what their sites are all showing codification problems. We opened a ticket with ModVPS and just wait their reply.
They told us that we should contact the script developer about the errors, but the problem appears at a lot of different scripts hosted on the same cPanel account. Because that, all appears to be a hacker attack.
Then, we consider that the better solution is to restore a full VPS backup, and we communicate this to ModVPS staff. And... Surprise! ModVPS don't have ANY backup for our VPS. Anything! That was one of my pre-sales question, and at that time they warrantied us a weekly backup.
We are still trying to get contact with them, but at this moment has passed 17 hours from their last answer and we are still waiting for it.
Since Sunday the CPU has been really high. Sunday was the worst though as my site was unavailable by some members and slow by others. I did open a support ticket and was told some one was doing a back up and after it was done things would go back to normal. Well Monday though today the site was fine and running fast again but the cpu is still pretty high.
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(page load time) 0.1192 sec (CPU load) 8.05, (sql) 11 queries (GZIP Enabled ) Time is now: 21st November 2007 - 12:04 PM
That is what it says on the bottom of my forum.
I am not sure if I should contact them again or just let it go since the site is loading fine.
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(page load time) 0.0354 sec (CPU load) 1.43 (Sql) 11 queries (GZIP Enabled ) Time is now: 21st November 2007 - 12:09 PM
I have been researching i3d.net as a dedicated provider.
I have searched the archives and in order to take a final decision I would like to kindly ask some current clients and even past clients of i3d.net to share some insight on the quality of this provider and it's network.
I have clients that I host that can't email certain domains which I know do exist.
The support people are telling me that the domain name doesn't resolve, yet the MX records and everything are correct for the particular domain that these people are either sending email to or receiving email from.
For example:
If a user I host sends and email to user@domainx.com ... they receive one of two messages:
retry timeout exceeded
or
retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period
If user@domainx.com sends and email to anyone that host, they receive a bounce back with a message saying that mail delivery was delayed for xx hours and will try for up to 5 days. It will eventually fail.
domainx.com is perhaps one of the largest ISPs in Canada and my host is telling me that everything is working OK because they can send / receive mail from gmail to my customers.
I've been happily hosted in Equinix Ashburn for over a year now, so I haven't been looking into price changes over the past months. However, my colo provider suddenly decided to raise prices by 20% on me, saying that space and bandwidth has become scarce over the past year and their own cost went up by 75%. So they are asking me to lock the new hiked price by signing a new contract, otherwise I won't be able to get such offer from them or any other provider in that location.
Before signing anything, I'm trying to get a feel of the current prices. I see a lot of ads in here for same bw and space, but I'm sure there are variations in the level of service they provide, depending on the colo company, location, bw providers, package type, etc... So, just as crude estimate, can you please tell in general whether prices/costs has went up or down or stayed the same since last year, and by how much?
And if someone has experience with Equinix/Ashburn, what would be a reasonable price for a dedicated 100Mbps/4U colocation with a quality bandwidth provider?
I have been with IGSoBe for a little over 2 months now, going on 3. And the rates seemed great. I have resold a few servers for them to clients, and everything seemed okay. The server setup times exceeded the 72 hour maximum. I have a C class of IP addresses with them which were supposed to take 7 days MAXIMUM, I was told in the *WORST* case scenario. I think I waited 3 - 5 weeks for the C class which had me at a standstill with VPS sales. Long setup times had a few clients back out. Have had a few comments about slow network in that it isn't blazing fast like some premium providers, although I haven't had a problem myself.
Each month goes by and there's a downtime about this, or a downtime about that. Well this month it has been smooth sailing, I thought all the problems must have been ironed out, and to my dismay come the 15th, the DAY AFTER paying the invoice for the server, BAM the server is offline. IGSoBe main website still up, as well as client servers so I know its not a mass issue. So I open a support ticket on the 15th. It is now the 17th and no reply to the support ticket. Earlier this afternoon I finally emailed the owner John directly and have still not got any response or acknowledgement. John is the only one that can enter the datacenter suite that he colocates in, so contacting him, or him being notified is important.
So going on 72 hours of downtime, no response or support from the provider, I am 100% sure no matter what John could offer me there's just no way I am staying with IGSoBe any longer than I have to. I just paid the invoice, so I am stuck for the rest of the month as all the income went towards the invoices. (One invoice for IP addresses, the other on a different day for the server). Dare I file a paypal dispute? My concern is also my clients data, about 60 VPS' total, and the WHMCS client database which I do not have a recent backup locally (I know better now to keep a backup of the most important of all important data and keep it in a safe place off-site!). If I file a dispute, it is unlikely I will see any of that data again. As if cubichost.org needs any more bad reputation right?
If you do a quick search here on WHT for igsobe you will first notice plenty of complaints.
So this is the deal with IGS:
John, the man with the plan is the sole proprietor (as of earlier this year, I know IGSOBE wasn't a registered LLC in the state of FL as the website might insinuate), he is the only one that physically manages the servers, transiting from his home to the suite he leases in the fibermedia datacenter in the carrier neutral facility in Miami FL. He used to, in the past, transit to and from the datacenter 2 times a day to set up servers, handle reboots, OS reloads, and that sort of thing. Recently, we had a client with a pentium 4 who needed a root password reset, this was on the 7th of this month, it is now the 17th and the password has still not been reset. I am in fear of losing this client because of this which would not help in our hopes to grow and succeed as a provider. I also have admin access in WHMCS at IGSOBE as a sales agent, and have noticed no one else logs in anymore, ESPECIALLY not John. Also, no one is hardly on LiveZilla chat or in IRC anymore.
I hope all goes well for John, I hope he can pull his act together and get IGSoBe back to working order. I would stay loyal but this is not the first time this has happened and I have to go. I have to make a good name for cubichost. I would suggest for the present time though, to stay away from igs!
So by the 7th of next month, hopefully earlier though I plan to make a move to BURST.NET which will hopefully go well I hear great things about them. Only a few bad things, mostly from > 1 year ago.
both concerns with programming,hosting and domain as well.
Have we had any solution for a website with multi hosting? I mean how to prevent it from being down by transfering it to another host. I know that it is about A record. If my site down, i should immediately change A record point to another IP of a backup server. However, it still takes time.
Does anyone know of a tool (I've seen it before but forgot the name) which is a bar like 100x30 in pixel and when you click it, a box popups allowing you to select facebook, orkut, myspace, wordpress, etc etc, and you can blog the current site url you are surfing?
my server is jammed and takes minutes to load simple pages, can you please take a look ath the following image, its show under "CPU %" for mysql 177, does that mean mysql is using 177% of resources of cpu?
I was asked earlier today by one of the tech people at the university that I go to if I knew of any hosts that would offer some space/bw/access for a website that already exists. From what I was told, the host would not be the primary server for the website, so it would not require very much bandwidth, and the entirety of the website is only 300MB, so space isn't really an issue either (As most hosts now a days offer 1GB+). The catch is that they were planning on using rsync to update the mirror host, with the latest content from the live website, every 3 hours or so. Preferably, they want to spend as little money as possible on this and not buy a dedicated server or VPS somewhere, as that would be very costly.
So, does anyone here know of a host that would offer such a thing and allow SSH access to setup the rsync?